Better Graphs
Teach agents to stop making plain Matplotlib slop
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https://github.com/temataro/better-graphsI want to teach good Matplotlib taste to agents and humans. This repo contains: 1. Agent instructions + design motifs (Claude Code skills + a CLAUDE.md). 2. An online "blog" tutorial of the same skills, for people. 3. minerva.mplstyle, my opinionated sane matplotlib defaults.Inspired by Tufte's book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (a gift from my boss!), plus data-to-viz.com and the python-graph-gallery. Aiming for halfway to the gorgeous plots in the paid matplotlib-journey.com, but free and open to share with friends. :)
HN · launched Jun 28, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: data and scientific visualization tools · 146 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
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- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes This is a collection of prompt guidelines, configuration files (minerva.mplstyle), and static documentation/tutorials for styling Matplotlib charts.
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Competitors mentioned: data-to-viz.com, python-graph-gallery, matplotlib-journey (paid course), Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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